27 weeks + the name game

How far along? 27 weeks 

Total weight gain: 9 pounds

Maternity clothes? While I was dreading the shopping trip to Motherhood...again. I never regret it once I'm home and I have the pants to put on. I have been able to make my no maternity tops work but pants not so much. I hate trying clothes on, I'm the person that guesses and returns. With Motherhood being a 40 minute drive trying on was important, I was sweating and wanting to cry but let me say HELLO COMFORT! So worth it! I got some things to hold me over for spring. I'll go back again when I'm needing shorts. So I'm sure that there will be more sweating and more wallowing with my fat self on that trip as well. 

Sleep: I have good nights and bad, mostly good! I'm getting tired more like in that first trimester- ready for bed before 8pm!  Now with daylight being a little longer I was hoping it would trick my body into thinking it was earlier.. Not quite! Getting comfortable is a challenge. I feel like I can navigate this belly just fine during the day but at night when it comes to turning from side to side I feel like I'm moving a bowling ball around.

Best moment this week: Anytime I feel him move - it is the best.  He's been flip flopping a lot- and the best is getting to share that with David he gets so excited to watch or to feel him move.

Miss Anything? Nah.

Cravings: Still loving chicken sandwiches, carbonated anything, cereal, peanut butter and jelly is new this week. Chips ahoy and milk is also a nightly snack, I rotate between that and popcorn. Something came over me at the store recently and I bought a 24 count of popcorn and I got home wondering why I did that. It just seemed so appealing at the store.  Also fruit mostly strawberries and bananas and ice cold water. 

Symptoms: I actually noticed some heartburn today... Hmmm maybe baby hair?! 

Looking forward to: I think about the day I will meet our little guy multiple times a day. The little details of his face, his tiny feet, and the smell of his baby head.  As I approach my last trimester, all this is becoming more real. We're also looking forward to our dr. appt at the end of this week. It's always comforting and reassuring. So we will have a mini update next week and and then an ultrasound update the next! Yay!

THE NAME GAME

We are so enjoying hearing all of your name guesses for our sweet boy. Except none of you have gotten it yet! 

When we found out we were pregnant, David and I had already been discussing names. We actually had/have an enormous powerhouse of a name list in the notes section of my phone.  It has been a running document, so to speak, of names I/we have come across over time that struck our desire and heart strings for naming future bab(ies).

When we heard our top boy name for the first time, it was perfect for this sweet boy before we ever realized why. What else made it perfect was that no one else we knew had it! Since then I have had actual nightmares of people stealing our name, like I actually came up with it myself. Clearly I don't have the copyrights to the name. Recently I heard of someone (mind you I don't know this person personally) that named their little boy something super similar in my opinion and I admit I was irritated. Keep in mind it's not the same name, pronunciation or spelled the same, just similar. I am crazy? I full on admit it. 

Up until the excitement of this baby boy, I had never ever, ever, ever, e v e r  shared my name list with anyone. Maybe a random one here and there but no one has seen the master expect David. I keep acting like it is some official special document, but hey I feel like I worked hard for our names and for David and I to agree on names is rare!

Back to our little guys name (no I'm not going to tell you), we had shared a few names here and there at the beginning of our pregnancy but, everyone had their opinions, thoughts, and expressions that I didn't care to hear at all one bit - and basically it hurt my feelings, and I am allowed to have those.  

Names at the top of my boy list being called 'interesting'

Names at the top of my girl list being called 'boyish'.

Or they were just given awful nicknames right from the getgo.

This was all before we actually knew what we here having yet.  I was already over the name selection before it even had a chance to get started.

Our sweet boy has a name, and it is perfect. His first name and its meaning are so precious to us and initially we were going to go with a different middle name than we actually decided on first. After we found out we were having a boy. We knew they meaning of his first name was special and we found a middle name we loved that had an even more perfect meaning for him, what he means to David and I and also how special he has been in our walk with the Lord. We pray for him by name and call him by name, and talking to him by name.  It sticks.  It is precious.  It is perfect.

Honestly, I don't care if you hate it.  When it came to naming this sweet boy, I am the one that has to love it, and I completely understand if not everyone loves our decision. But once this sweet boy has arrived.. I double dog dare you to tell me you hate it.

It is the number one question I get these days- "Does baby boy have a name?"  Yes, yes he does.  

He is SO special to us.  Literally our miracle baby.  The baby we didn't know if we ever would have. The baby that happened on God's timing, and we are so very thankful and his name reflects that perfectly.

We CANNOT wait to share his name with you all though but not for another 13 weeks or so, that is.

disclaimer: 

This is my way of expressing our reasons for not sharing our baby boy's name before he is born, and in no way am I attempting to offend anyone.  :)